#fixing stitching

[howtomakeyousee]

You will patch up all the holes in 2025.

(this isn’t a post about knitting)

[superbat-lmao]

Before Jason makes his debut as Red Hood, he goes apartment hunting.

And the thing about Gotham is, all of the apartments that would make for good safe houses, are safe houses. The Bat’s safe houses. If Jason wants to set up shop, he’s got to get creative. This means being willing to look the other way about some things. Namely, living with other people.

Jason gets a roommate.

Sure, he’d found a couple of spots that fit some of the criteria he used for making safe houses, but not all apartments were equal. And having a semi-functioning civilian cover was useful. Sometimes.

All this to say that Jason responded to a craigslist post of some guy looking for a roommate. The post was written well enough, decent grammar and a fair enough price. Unlike some of the places he’d “toured.”

He has to trudge up a few flights of stairs to get to the place, because roof access is always high on the priority list, and knocks on the door. He waits a few minutes, hears someone check the peephole, and then the sound of at least five separate locks being undone.

With the door finally open, he gets a good look at the guy’s face. Too good of a look, actually.

Because the man who opens it is Dick Grayson.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Eddie obviously knows how to sew (hes not only dirt-poor living off of a single consistent paycheck and whatever he earns selling drugs, but hes also a punk- theres no way he DOESNT know how to sew), but steve most definitely does. not. one of his shirts get a hole and he throws it out.

When eddie first witnesses this, hes fucking MORTIFIED and ends up digging a t-shirt out of the trash and sewing the hole closed and fixing the loose stitching on the hem and gives steve a lecture about not wasting fabric and money.

And from then on, steve just shows up at the munson household every now and then with various clothes in his arms, asking eddie to fix them for him.

[kingfuc]

Sequel to that other comic I did

[teashopcrafts]

Paraphrased from David Lynch's quote "and when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die."

I always loved that quote, and am happy to see it finding new life now.

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[aristoteliancomplacency]

If you’re not a knitter then you probably won’t understand exactly how batshit doing this was. That’s fine, but I’ll explain under the cut for anyone who’s interested. The pattern is Guðrún Herdís Arnarsdóttir's modification of Lyle Stafford’s one ring scarf (both are free).

The eye at each end I wrote the pattern for myself based on a design on the cover of the editions of the Lord of the Ring I grew up with (i.e., my dad’s, for whom the scarf was a present).

The scarf is done using a technique called double knitting, which means you’re working both sides of the scarf literally at the same time, carrying two yarns forward and back to alternately knit and purl and alternating which colour you’re using (work the knits with colour A, purl with colour B, swap for the other side). This gives you something which has two sides that are stockinette, but different colours.

The technique allows you to make an identical pattern on both sides by switching which colour you’re using for the knit and purl stitches. The advantage of this is that you end up with the two sides woven together rather than a tube and don’t have to carry the yarn as with stranded colour work.

The problem with this is when you’re working a non-symmetrical pattern where it matters which way around the writing is. The writing will be the correct way around on one side, but backwards on the other side.

Guðrún’s modification fixes this, but the trade-off is that because you’re no longer working the pattern the same on both sides you now have four potential stitch combinations instead of two (AB, BA, AA, and BB).

Just to make it even more complicated for my project the pattern colour-coded the stitch combos and uses black and red for two of the combos, but not for what for my scarf would be black-black and red-red. This caused more than one error. I have undone and redone a lot of rows.

[nonetoon]

Locked in too hard yesterday and spent 6.5 hours straight making a cross stitch thing for a picture frame I got antique shopping 😭

[opikiquu]

they’re all alive and happy and they can all be nursed back to health because i said so

[territorial-utopia]

Huzzah! It's birthday time! I'm slowly accumulating more and more things I like (latest additions this vest I made and a travel typewriter! Still need to fix the latter one though)

Sure has been a year.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

I haven't figured out how I'm crossing off squares, but I finished my cross-stitch rendition of @batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 Book Bingo!!!!!

I'm so obsessed with this like, I'm so proud of how it turned out. It was so fun to design and stitch, my decision to use four thread for the border on 1.5mm square aida not withstanding.

Some photos of the planning and progress below, including a fair bit of maths, interruption by animals and also you can see the page under the one my dog jumped on and ripped out:

Also shout-out to @bookantique for listening to me ramble about this and plan it the whole time I was doing it <33

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

tbh the most fun thing about going into different fiber art hobbies has been seeing all the little specialized tools some use that others don't (but imo should). like what do you mean cross stitching has 'needle minders' that are like these cute little magnets you put on your project to stick your needle onto??? in sewing we have stuffed tomato plushies for pins and needles, but this is so cute too??? I always lose my needles, I should get more cute accessories like this

[respocked]

Early exile years

[swiftfootedachilles]

@gallacrafts Theme #44: Iconic Outfits!!!

tumblr nuked the quality, please click for a better look!

[jaclose]

The villagers' good memories about Jafar.

[skimpilydressedwithanaxe]

Anytime I question my rnm hyperfix and I feel myself inching closer to the conclusion it’s gone I look back at my closet to find this guy hanging

its not going ANYWHERE

[kaytheday]

The fact that I literally went outside and sat on the curb to read this and get one moment of quiet before I had the craziest night ever is proof that this year might be okay. At least fanfiction writers are looking out for me 😭😂